Modern parents take on much more of the childcare responsibilities themselves than their Stone Age ancestors, but this leads to less effective parenting, a new study suggests. Anthropologists at Cambridge University studied Mbendjele BaYaka, a semi-nomadic tribe who live today in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to find out how traditional societies care for their youngsters. They found that …
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Stone Age babies had better parenting than today! Infants received care for nine…
Modern life may have made many things easier, but scientists say that raising a child is not one of them. A study of modern hunter-gatherer groups suggests that our Stone Age ancestors gave their children better childcare than we do today. Researchers from Cambridge University found that children among the Mbendjele BaYaka in the Republic of Congo received nine hours …
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